French Ex-drugs Squad Chief Accused Over Drug Smuggling
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published August 25, 2017 | 02:40 PM
The former boss of France's drugs squad has been charged with complicity in drug smuggling as part of a probe into controversial methods used by the police to bring down drug barons, legal sources told AFP Friday
PARIS, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Aug, 2017 ) - The former boss of France's drugs squad has been charged with complicity in drug smuggling as part of a probe into controversial methods used by the police to bring down drug barons, legal sources told AFP Friday.
Francois Thierry was charged Thursday evening with complicity in the possession, transport and acquisition of drugs and in the export of drugs as part of an organised gang, a source close to the investigation said.
His squad came under investigation after seven tonnes of cannabis smuggled from Morocco was seized in Paris on October 17, 2015.
The police were initially praised for the haul but it later emerged that it was part of a sting operation aimed at infiltrating a smuggler network, with the help of a notorious trafficker acting as an informer.
Investigators accuse Thierry of keeping his superiors in the dark about parts of the operation and the role played by the trafficker, allegations he denies.
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